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Prefiro viajar com a família, não sozinho.

Prefiro viajar com a família, não sozinho.
I prefer to travel with the family, not alone.
From Lesson 55:The preposition com (comigo, contigo)·Portuguese (Portugal)

Breakdown of Prefiro viajar com a família, não sozinho.

não
not / no
com
with
a família
the family
preferir
to prefer
viajar
to travel
sozinho
alone

Questions & Answers about Prefiro viajar com a família, não sozinho.

Why is it com a família instead of just com família?
In English we often just say 'with family', but Portuguese usually requires the definite article (o, a, os, as) before nouns. So, you must say com a família, which literally translates to 'with the family'.
Since this lesson is about words like comigo, how would I say 'I prefer to travel with you'?
To say 'with you' to a friend, you would replace com a família with the special combined word contigo. The sentence becomes Prefiro viajar contigo, não sozinho. Remember, you never say com tu!
Why doesn't viajar change its ending here?
Because it immediately follows another verb (prefiro) that is already conjugated to match 'I'. When you link two verbs together like this to say 'I prefer to travel', the second verb stays in its dictionary form (the infinitive), which is viajar.
If a woman is speaking, does sozinho change?
Yes! The word for 'alone' changes its ending to match the gender of the person it describes. A man says sozinho, but a woman must say sozinha. If a group of people is speaking, they would use the plural forms sozinhos or sozinhas.

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